Poverty

Life is a contrast and you can see it everywhere, countries with the most beautiful landscapes have the majors problems of poverty and hungry in the world, been more specific the case of Africa, a land with natural fauna and flora that captivate everyone who visit this land, but is the most affected continent not only by having the poorest countries, but also had the worst rates in health, life expectancy, and hungry in the all globe. Is true that poverty doesn’t affect only African countries, and is spread all over the world, even in the richest countries had problems to fight poverty and unemployment. But the situation is just different when comes to places where other indicators like, education, work, and stability is lack or missing.

There’s a war against poverty, but even when the whole world is in crisis poverty is not, and increases more every day. The wealthier countries in the world are committed to try and eradicated poverty, but not so much have been done, if only 0.7% of what rich countries spend in arms where destined to poverty every child around the world would have an education for a life time. And here I come with another contrast, avaricious of who more money have, the more they have, the more they spend in stupid things, like wars; and the less they care about humanitarian aspects, instead of been pro-life they are trying to better kill we all, and by that forgetting about our problems and lacks.

Just to keep in mind the poorest country in the world where at some time a colony of a rich country, this give us up how wealthy countries were in somehow responsible of poverty around the world, and they should be also responsible to set ideas and plans to eradicate and help countries that present this problems, Political leaders again are in front of such an important issue for humanity and they don’t do much, as usual, once again comes generous organization that try to fight against all kind of difficulties to take part in this monumental effort of eliminating at least extreme poverty in the globe.

Sometimes is sad to know that poverty around the world is always a matter of money, and is not of survival, because in that case the richest countries should be others, that just by been alive at the sunrise is a worried for every single day, a bunch of feelings comes when I think of how selfishness of we as human, against poor people can end in this lack of interest for humankind, it comes to my mind the recent events in Haiti, now nobody thinks or care about this country, once it goes through TV cables and the notice in the news disappear the problems goes away and we simply forget, that’s how is done, people always forgets really fast, and become disinterested later on.

This image doesn’t escape a lot from reality, when we talk of rich countries against poor nations, and we as individual act as those selfish nations that forget that they are responsible for their health and life, so we should start to help as an individual these sound like an utopia but, there’s no other way, we shouldn’t depend on what political people can do we need to find other ways to help and support altruist organization to keep with their effort.

Guns at home

Guns at home

When I first heard about this topic, I had my own opinion, and it was on favor of gun possession and arming, I didn’t realize the real consequences of having a gun at home. As most of the people, I picture myself at home and some unknown criminal breaking into the house, me at that time undefended looking for something to protect me, and later looking for a gun and try to use it against the murder. But very few people who legally own a gun really use them in self defense, and the weapon just stay there locked in a cabin or in some cases under the bed, as a potential accident.

Gun possession increases the risk of a violent death, because a gun can be involved in an accidental shooting, suicide or family homicide. As an statistic every time a gun injures or kills in self defense, it is used 11 times as an attempted suicides, 7 times in criminal assaults and homicides, and 4 times in unintentional shooting deaths or injuries. So a home with a gun is less secure than a home without a gun.

There should be other alternatives to gun possession and more laws and regulation for these kinds of practices. Arming is also a matter of cultural and social status and need to be control. They are more guns everyday on the streets and easier for a child or an inexpert citizen to acquire one. The guns should be ban at all and give jail penalty for anybody who own one. That’s the only way of stopping violence, there still other ways of controlling this issue, but at this time, in Costa Rica; I think that no other alternative can fit.

When I did my research on this topic I found a statement that fits perfectly to arming an gun possession, and how we should be learned. “You only have to alternatives, if you want to prevent a boy of throwing stones, either teaches the boy not to or pick up every stone and throw it into the sea”. So, in fact, if we cannot teach everyone how to use arms we at least need to try and eliminate them, and with them the consequences of arming and gun possession can disappear.

Feedback Letter

Feedback Letter, Globalization Week Org. September 29th, 2010 Hi, during last Wednesday we attended to a presentation about Drupal Software, as a personal point of view you could came with some really interesting topics about it. The Drupal software is now leading programs for websites worldwide, and more important about it is that is a free open source program that can be run in any kind of module. The presentation at itself was a little boring, and sometimes were difficult to understand because it did showed irrelevant information that didn’t even match with the main topic, but also shows a different perspective of what a website is, and how they are done. The speaker did know fully about the topic, and he came to the presentation as a developer and founder of a Drupal enterprise here in Costa Rica, which is really good to know how the market of software and development is improving more everyday, and help the country keep the standard of being one of countries were software development is a exporting and qualified product. The globalization week comes out with the idea of help students in the university know about other topics, and one of the most important topics know days is technology, so this type of presentation should be taking as a way of learning how new tech improve not only our lives, but our business and working places. Well as usual the university comes with this type of events that make us have our opinion for certain topics , is also true that they need to be better, and with more interesting content. Something I cant let go is that at least this last presentation, I did assisted, wasn’t interesting for everybody, because maybe, didn’t fulfill the needs of everyone in the auditorium, so that’s another critic of why the event should be more interesting and with more dynamic.

Global Warming

Global Warming is now an everyday issue, but is being a topic for not for a long time, right now is really a concern and a danger to all human kind and the environment as well, the whole world is involve in the consequences and impact of global warming effects.

The major impact of global warming is now done by the carbon dioxide spread by fossil fuels, experts talk of more than 20 billion tons of carbon dioxide thrown to the atmosphere every year, if we think about it, the human population is around 6.5 billion people so it would be 3 tons of carbon dioxide for every single human in the world.

So, if carbon dioxide could do this to increase the green house effect, what could happen if we add some other factors like, pollution, used of non clean energy sources, water contamination deforestation, etc. is going to be hard to imagine the real consequences, the climate warming influence physical and biological systems the world is now changing because of this issue, and in just a few years scientists believe of the increase in 4 degrees the world temperature, that can cause an enormous effect in the planet behavior and climate.

As usual, this is now a political matter all the countries around the world are now concern of what global warming could do and the real effects on worldwide climate. There’s a lot of things that can be done but not too many ideas yet approved because the problem is well-known by the politicians, but they still think of a long period plans that can’t affect the economy of their countries, so it’s now more important the economy than the survival of the human being, not to be surprise of this statement when come out from a politician.

Some work had been done, but is not enough for the problem to come, the climate change is and should be an educational matter, if big enterprise do not care about this issue, well… the rest of us should do something, and beginning with a good education in terms of climate warming is a good start.